[TR] Gulmarg, Kashmir - Various 1/25/2008

[Hugh Conway]

Trip: Gulmarg, Kashmir - Various

 

Date: 1/25/2008

 

Trip Report:

Here's a brief rehash TR from my trip to Gulmarg, Kashmir last year.

 

Always remember Rule #5

 

Gulmarg has been a ski center for 80 years, first under the British and later under India. For years there were several small crappy chairlifts until Government of India decided to build a big Gondola. It's a nice big gondola, running from left to just left of the summit.

The Gondola broke the day I arrived. Except for one bowl lookers right of the chairlift there is fantastic powder, no avalanche control and no ski patrol

 

The living accommodations are luxurious - free Bollywood

and live entertainment as they change the stove pipe with fire in the stove.

 

With a broken gondola it was skinning:

 

skiing:

 

and lunching:

 

with occaisonal monkey encounters. Beware, if they are in the tree the little fuckers will shake snow on you

 

Gear Notes:

Hookah supplied at resort, beware the Kashmir Alpine den of sen

 

Approach Notes:

Plane to BKK, to DEL, to SXR, taxi to the resort

[Tokogirl]

Have to ask as I was in India, 20 years ago now, but how was the flight from DEL to SXR.

I only took one flight from Kulu to Manli - delayed from DEL due to "technical" difficulties and then as they started the engines up a guy held up a fire extinguisher. I was to sick at the time but really laughed later!

You were in a very beautiful area. Great skiing up there! Did you do a bit of exploring?

[Braydon]

climate-adaptable primates!!!!!! thats it...were all f***ed.

[Hugh Conway]

Have to ask as I was in India, 20 years ago now, but how was the flight from DEL to SXR.

I only took one flight from Kulu to Manli - delayed from DEL due to "technical" difficulties and then as they started the engines up a guy held up a fire extinguisher. I was to sick at the time but really laughed later!

You were in a very beautiful area. Great skiing up there! Did you do a bit of exploring?

 

I flew Jet from DEL-SXR - prime example of the new India, cheap, great service, excellent. On the return I flew Air Sahara. That was a debacle.....

 

No, I didn't do enough exploring would like to go back in a different season with different plans. This was a lark and it's damn hard to get information in India

[Tokogirl]

I was there for 6 months and in India information seems to be conflicting. One should have a flexible schedual. Though, saw some increadible places and stayed with some very nice people.

Love to go back and ski in Himachal Pradesh!

[ken4ord]

Thanks for the TR that is definitely all I needed to be convinced that I should have my boards here with me. How much did you ended spending for the taxi, mountain access and lodging?

[Hugh Conway]

Cab - shared with 3 others that I met at airport ~$20

Room at Green heights (shared) ~$12 including breakfast and the occasional dinner. There's at least one cheaper place to stay around, and you can pay much more. Best deal I found was a cottage for Rs. 1800 that included a hot shower.

Dinner/Snacks - $3-4

1 Bottom Lift Ticket run - ~$2.50

1 Top Lift Ticket Run ~$7

So, cheaper than the west, but much more expensive than the plains.

[ken4ord]

Cool thanks for the info.